MECHANISMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING CACHE TAGS IN DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY - A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is operated as a cache memory coupled with a processor core. A block of data is transmitted to the DRAM as even and odd pairs of bits from the processor core. The block of data includes N error correcting code (ECC) bits and 11*N data bits. Two or more cache lines are to be stored in a memory page with tag bits aggregated together within the page.

2012-10-04

20120254701

MODULATOR AND MODULATION METHOD - A transmitter apparatus wherein a relatively simple structure is used to suppress burst errors without changing the block sizes of encoded blocks even when the number of modulation multi-values is increased. An encoding part subjects transport data to a block encoding process to form block encoded data. A modulating part modulates the block encoded data to form data symbols; and an arranging (interleaving) part arranges (interleaves) the block encoded data in such a manner that the intra-block encoded data of the encoded blocks, which include their respective single different data symbol, get together, and then supplies the arranged (interleaved) block encoded data to the modulating part. In this way, there can be provided a transmitter apparatus wherein a relatively simple structure is used to suppress burst errors without changing the block sizes of encoded blocks even when the number of modulation multi-values is increased.

2012-10-04

20120254702

ERROR CORRECTION APPARATUS AND ERROR CORRECTION METHOD - A plurality error correction circuits connected with series includes a calculator circuit corrects the codeword when the determination results of a determining circuit indicate that the error correcting circuit at the present stage is to correct the codeword, and a determining circuit at a subsequent error correction apparatus determines whether the error correcting circuit at the subsequent stage is to correct the codeword when the determination results of the determining circuit indicate that the error correcting circuit at the present stage is not to correct the codeword.

2012-10-04

20120254703

APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE BLOCK DECODING - Apparatus and methods for selective decoding of received code blocks are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a code block, determining a code block quality indicator for the received code block, and attempting to decode the received code block if the code block quality indicator is greater than or equal to a threshold. If the code block quality indicator is less than the threshold, the received code block is discarded without decoding attempts. The threshold may be a static or dynamic threshold.

2012-10-04

20120254704

REED-SOLOMON DECODER AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a Reed-Solomon decoder comprises an analyzer and a calculator. The analyzer analyzes a data frame and calculates a size of a last code word located at an end of a data portion, using information included in a header portion. The calculator calculates correction coefficients, using the size of the last code word, for correcting coefficients of an error locator polynomial and coefficients of an error value polynomial for the last code word in accordance with a difference between a base size of Reed-Solomon code words and the size of the last code word, before error detection for a code word located immediately before the last code word in the data portion begins.

2012-10-04

20120254705

ERROR CORRECTION DECODER AND ERROR CORRECTION METHOD THEREOF - An error correction code (ECC) decoder processing data read from a storage media includes a plurality of processing elements for detecting an error in at least one of a plurality of channel data, wherein the plurality of channel data is received via a plurality of channels, and wherein the plurality of processing elements are driven independently from the plurality of channels

2012-10-04

20120254706

Method And Apparatus Relating To Channel Decoding - The present invention relates to channel decoding and provides ways and means for improved channel decoding of data frames. The frame has been channel encoded and transmitted to a receiver. The frame includes a part with information that is unknown to the receiver and another part with information for which the receiver generates at least one data hypothesis predicting its information content. The receiver performs a hypothesis-based decoding of the received encoded frame, wherein the at least one data hypothesis is used to improve a probability of successful decoding. The invention may advantageously be used to improve decoding of frames containing short control messages with fill bits, e.g. acknowledgement messages.

2012-10-04

20120254707

METHOD OF DETECTING TRANSPORTATION NETWORK DATABASE ERRORS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method of detecting errors in road characteristics in a transportation network database includes collecting sequential location measurements from probes traversing between two end points, fitting trace segments having a curved or linear shape between the sequential location measurements collected from the probes to form a probe trace, comparing a position of the probe traces with a position of a calculated path between the two end points, where the calculated path is formed from linked transportation network segments each of the linked transportation segments having a curved or linear shape, where the calculated path follows the road characteristics defined by the attributes associated with the linked transportation segments, and identifying a potential error in the attributes if a probe trace deviating in position from the calculated path is greater than a deviation threshold.

2012-10-04

20120254708

AUDIO ANNOTATIONS OF AN IMAGE COLLECTION - A multi-media image system includes using a processor enabling the establishment of an image collection on a digital storage system; associating an identifier with an established image collection; providing the identifier for distribution to a plurality of individuals; receiving an indication of the identifier together with one or more images from a first individual and incorporating the one or more images into the image collection; receiving an indication of the identifier together with one or more audio annotations from a second individual different from the first individual and associating the audio annotations with the image collection; and forming a multi-media image product that includes one or more images from the image collection together with one or more audio annotations.

2012-10-04

20120254709

IMAGE COLLECTION TEXT AND AUDIO ANNOTATION - A multi-media image system includes using a processor to provide a storage location for a multi-media image collection in a digital storage system and further associating an identifier with the storage location, providing the identifier for distribution, receiving information from two or more of the plurality of individuals, wherein the multi-media content includes one or more images, audio annotations, and text annotations, storing the multi-media content in the storage location and associating the multi-media content with the multi-media collection, providing rules for associating the audio annotations and rules for associating the text annotations with the images or the multi-media image collection, wherein the rules for associating the audio and the text annotations are different, and making a multi-media image product using at the multi-media content stored in the multi-media collection in accordance with the rules.

2012-10-04

20120254710

RISK CHARTS FOR FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS - A method to facilitate a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) project associated with one or more components or process during a product development cycle is provided. The method includes displaying on the user interface one or more information pages associated with sequential order of elements to be completed by one or more FMEA analysts. The method further involves receiving with an aid of the user interface textual inputs from the one or more FMEA analysts for the one or more information pages associated with the sequential orders of elements. The method further includes developing a risk chart for tracking a risk mitigation progress for the FMEA project associated with the one or more components or process during the product development cycle. The risk charts include a Criticality Matrix Risk Chart (CMRC) and a Pro-active Reliability Risk Chart (PRRC).

2012-10-04

20120254711

SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR CREATING A VIDEO CLIP - The present invention provides a system, method, and computer readable medium for creating a video clip. In one embodiment, a method, comprising creating a copy of a still image by a first module, the copy of the still image comprising reduced dimensions of the still image, creating a new still image from a selected area of the still image, automatically ordering the new still image and the copy of the still image, creating an audio file by at least one of a second module and a third module, creating a timeline, by the first module, related to the ordered images and the created audio file, and rendering the timeline into a video clip by a fourth module, wherein the timeline includes a length of the audio file, a length of the video clip, the ordered images, a display time of each of the ordered images, transition identifiers, transition lengths.

2012-10-04

20120254712

Map Service - Map service techniques are described. In an implementation, text is received from an application for processing by one or more linguistic services. Based on service properties of respective linguistic services that are relevant to the application, particular linguistic services are designated to be available for use by the application and one or more other linguistic services are obscured from the application. A communication is formed to communication the text to a designated linguistic service.

2012-10-04

20120254713

TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTRONIC AGGREGATION OF INFORMATION - Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

2012-10-04

20120254714

FORM LAYOUT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A form layout system includes a form layout tool that provides a flexible way to lay out forms on a web page. The form layout tool configures a web configuration file with the location of form layout styles, and uses the form layout styles, a number of columns, a number of fields, and a “size” of each field to include in the component of a page layout to create a page layout for a target application. The form layout tool generates a revised application page with the created page layout by applying the form layout style to the created page layout.

2012-10-04

20120254715

VISUALIZER AND EDITOR FOR SINGLE MOLECULE ANALYSIS - There is provided a computer system for visualizing and editing single molecule fragments and one or more previously-produced single molecule assemblies or “contigs.” The present visualization and editing system allows a user to visualize large data sets resulting from single molecule map assembly operations, and to rapidly discern important features while errors and other discrepancies are conveniently resolved. The system includes one or more connectors connecting each to one or more databases capable of storing a diverse array of biomedical information, in addition to the single molecule data against which a user may validate the prior alignment and assembly. Embodiments described herein are thus useful in studies of macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, peptides and proteins. The visualization and editing system may be implemented and deployed over a computer network, and may be ergonomically optimized to facilitate user interaction.

2012-10-04

20120254716

IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TEXT IN THE SAME - A method of controlling an image display apparatus, and which includes receiving, via an interface unit of the image display apparatus, an input signal indicating at least one mobile terminal is connected to the image display apparatus; receiving, via the interface unit of the image display apparatus, text information input on the mobile terminal during reproduction of a video displayed on the image display apparatus; displaying the text information on a display unit of the image display apparatus; and displaying, on the display unit, a timeline indicating a time length of the displayed video and indication information indicating when the text information was input on the displayed timeline.

2012-10-04

20120254717

MEDIA TAGGING - Provided is a method of tagging media. The method identifies at least one region of interest in a media based on a user input and assigns a higher weighted tag to an object identified in at least one region of interest compared to an object present in another region of the media.

2012-10-04

20120254718

VIEW-INDEPENDENT ANNOTATION OF COMMERCIAL DATA - A first view of commercial data is presented to a first user. A data selection criterion is received from the user. A first data set is identified based on the selection criterion. Annotation content is received from the user. The annotation content and the first view of the commercial data is associated with the first data set. A query is received for a second view from a second user, in which the second view includes at least a portion of the first data set. The second view is presented to the second user, together with the annotations associated with the portion of the first data set included in the second view.

2012-10-04

20120254719

Mapping an Object Type to a Document Type - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for mapping an object type to a document type. A computer system stores configuration templates that each identify a mapping of an object type to a markup language document type. The computer system displays a graphical user interface that permits a user of the computing system to select a configuration template. The computer system displays a list of the at least some attributes and, for each of the attributes, the associated markup language attribute or element that is identified by the selected configuration template. The computer system receives second user input that changes an association of one of the attributes so that the attribute is instead associated with a different markup language attribute or element. The computer system stores an updated mapping of the object type to the markup language document type.

2012-10-04

20120254720

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS - Systems, computer-implemented methods, and media for updating content of a page composed of markup language in response to a triggering event method include: receiving a request that indicates a triggering event; determining the type of triggering event based on the request; determining at least one page element from amongst plural page elements of the page to be updated based on the request; generating a response to the request, the response including metadata indicating the at least one page element and the content of the at least one page element, the content of the at least one page element being composed of the markup language; and transmitting the response.

2012-10-04

20120254721

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING A PREVIEW IMAGE OF A CONTENT AREA - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for generating and displaying a preview image of a content area are described herein. An embodiment includes rendering an image representing the content area requested by a browser, providing the rendered image to the browser for display, and enabling the browser to display the requested content area in place of the rendered image when the content area is received by the browser. The method further includes updating language defining the requested content area to reference the rendered image and to enable transition from a display of the rendered image to a display of the requested content area, and providing the updated language to the browser to enable the browser to display the rendered image while the requested content area is being provided to the browser.

2012-10-04

20120254722

INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE IMPLEMENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT THEREFOR - Systems and methods of interactive user interface implementation and development environment therefor are disclosed. One embodiment of implementing interactive elements in a web page on a client device includes, sending, by the client device, a request to a web server in response to an event triggered in a frame of the web page having multiple frames, processing a web server response from the web server for the frame, and/or unloading contents of the frame, after receipt of the web server response, independent of the other frames in the web page when in accordance with rules defined for the web server response.

2012-10-04

20120254723

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPORTING WEB STANDARD NON-COMPLIANCE OF WEB PAGES - A method and system for reporting web standard non-compliance of web pages is provided. The method includes receiving a local copy of the web page to be tested for web standard non-compliance. The method further includes determining a set of errors on the web page corresponding to a user specified accessibility guideline. Thereafter an HTML overlay report is generated based on the determined set of errors. Further, a set of controls is generated based on the user specified accessibility guideline, the local copy and the set of errors. Finally, one or more controls are selected from the set of controls and based on the one or more selected controls and the determined set of errors one or more images are associated with each HTML element non-conformant to the accessibility guideline on the web page.

2012-10-04

20120254724

ENCODER COMPILER, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The reading unit reads mapping information that maps a particular point in a document structure defined by XML schema to the name of a variable and a training XML document that includes a substitute character string positioned at a particular point and tags. A parser converts the training XML document into a sequence of events each specifying one of substitute character string and the tag names. The reading unit reads in an EXI grammar form. A code composer processes the sequence of events and generates an EXI event code based on the EXI grammar form, generates a function to retrieve the value of a variable mapped to the particular point at which the substitute character string is positioned when the event is an event specifying substitute character string, and produces an EXI encoder including output instruction codes to output EXI event codes and the retrieved value of the function.

2012-10-04

20120254725

EXI ENCODER AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An EXI encoder is based on XML schema defining an XML document that includes a head portion, a body portion which can be repeated X times or more and which contains a variable content, and a tail portion. A reading unit sequentially reads input data corresponding to the variable content as many as the number of times the body portion is repeated. A head portion encoder generates an EXI bit string corresponding to the head portion. A body portion encoder generates an EXI bit string corresponding to the body portion in which the variable is replaced with the input data each time input data is read by the reading unit. A tail portion encoder generates an EXI bit string corresponding to the tail portion. An output unit outputs an EXI stream including the EXI bit strings.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING A PREVIEW IMAGE OF A CONTENT AREA - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for generating and displaying a preview image of a content area are described herein. An embodiment includes rendering an image representing the content area requested by a browser, providing the rendered image to the browser for display, and enabling the browser to display the requested content area in place of the rendered image when the content area is received by the browser. The method further includes updating language defining the requested content area to reference the rendered image and to enable transition from a display of the rendered image to a display of the requested content area, and providing the updated language to the browser to enable the browser to display the rendered image while the requested content area is being provided to the browser.

2012-10-04

20120254728

CONTENT ACQUIRING METHOD AND CLIENT TERMINAL - The invention provides a content acquiring method and a client terminal, the content acquiring method comprises acquiring, by a client terminal according to an acquired content identification, an HTML file corresponding to the content identification by using HTTP; acquiring, by the client terminal, at least two external linked identifications associated with the HTML file; and acquiring, by the client terminal according to the at least two external linked identifications, external linked resources corresponding to the at least two external linked identifications by using HTTP via one request. According to the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to shorten the time for displaying content at the client terminal, and to reduce signaling processing load of the service server and power consumption of the client terminal.

2012-10-04

20120254729

WEB PAGE ELEMENT PRESENTING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for presenting page elements on a computer having a browser for a user of the computer. The method includes identifying a page element in a web page displayed in a browser window of the browser as a target page element and modifying a coordinate type of the target page element. The method also includes presenting the target page element at a fixed position relative to the browser window based on the modified coordinate type.

2012-10-04

20120254730

TECHNIQUES TO CREATE STRUCTURED DOCUMENT TEMPLATES USING ENHANCED CONTENT CONTROLS - Techniques to create structured documents and document templates using enhanced content controls are described. An apparatus may comprise an application to generate a document from a document template. The application may comprise a document template component operative to retrieve a document template comprising multiple document parts. The application may further comprise a content control component operative to manage a content control embedded in a document part of the document template. The content control may be associated with a data source arranged to store richly formatted content presented by the content control without necessarily requiring the data storage to be written in any particular way. The content control component may synchronize any changes to the formatted content between the content control and the data store. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

2012-10-04

20120254731

MULTILAYER STYLE SHEET APPROACH AND SYSTEM - A multilayer style sheet method includes retrieving multiple style sheets, the style sheets comprising multiple layers in a hierarchy, the layers comprising characteristics of features for electronic documents, and generating an electronic document based on the style sheets.

2012-10-04

20120254732

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DOCUMENTS FOR PARALLEL CONTENT DISPLAY ON A SINGLE SCREEN FOR MULTIPLE VIEWERS - A system, method, and storage medium for generating visual content in plural versions for substantially simultaneous display on the same display device are provided. The system includes memory for storing static content having at least one document element common to a first and second version of a document, multi-dimensional content having at least one customized document element for each document version to be inserted into a variable area within the first and second versions of the document, and multi-dimensional parameters defining static areas, variable areas, and customized document elements for each document version. The system further includes a rendering module adapted to generate a first frame-image corresponding to the first document version and a second frame-image corresponding to the second document version by arranging the static content and multi-dimensional content of each document version according to the multi-dimensional parameters.

2012-10-04

20120254733

Method for Users to Create and Edit Web Page Layouts - A computer implemented method of editing a layout of areas on a page, for example for webpage design, includes displaying the layout in a user interface along with control elements operable via a user input device to manipulate user-variable attributes of the layout, the user-variable attributes including at least one of a number count of subdivisions in said layout, dimensions of said subdivisions in said layout, and border direction between each pair of adjacent subdivisions in said layout. Input via the user input device and the control elements is received to modify one or more of the user-variable attributes. Stored data representing the layout is updated based on the user input, and the display of the layout is updated based on the updated data to present a revised layout based on new values of the user-variable attributes.

2012-10-04

20120254734

GRAPHICS-PLUGIN AND SERVER METHOD FOR INVITATION DESIGNS - A computerized, web-based, method and system for improved (high-end) stationary designs for invitations to weddings and other important events. The method and system is based on two software components. One component is a plug-in for a graphics program, often a high end graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Indesign. This plug-in allows the graphics program to communicate with the second component of the system, which is a remote Internet web server loaded with a variety of different invitation templates. Using this system, the user can, while working within the familiar user interface of a stand-alone graphics program, import templates for custom paper product designs, and rapidly produce highly realistic images for client evaluation. These methods are also highly suitable for allowing users to communicate interest in new designs, as well as directly ordering materials from the manufacturer from within the same graphics program.

2012-10-04

20120254735

Presentation format selection based at least on device transfer determination - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining that a computing device that was in possession of a first user has been transferred from the first user to a second user, the determining including at least partially identifying the second user and the computing device being designed for presenting one or more items; and presenting, via the computing device, the one or more items in one or more particular formats, the one or more particular formats being selected based, at least in part, on said determining. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

2012-10-04

20120254736

Ascertaining presentation format based on device primary control determination - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining which of a plurality of users detected in proximate vicinity of a computing device has primary control of the computing device, the computing device designed for presenting one or more items; ascertaining one or more particular formats for formatting the one or more items based, at least in part, on said determining; and presenting, via the computing device, the one or more items in the one or more particular formats. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

2012-10-04

20120254737

Ascertaining presentation format based on device primary control determination - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining which of a plurality of users detected in proximate vicinity of a computing device has primary control of the computing device, the computing device designed for presenting one or more items; ascertaining one or more particular formats for formatting the one or more items based, at least in part, on said determining; and presenting, via the computing device, the one or more items in the one or more particular formats. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

2012-10-04

20120254738

TIME-SERIES INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS AND TIME-SERIES INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a time-series information generating apparatus includes a dividing module, a determining module, a generating module, and a display module. The dividing module divides an electronic document to be displayed into one or more sets of sentences. The determining module determines a summary of each of the sets of sentences. The generating module generates time-series information that represents relative temporal information between anyone of the sets of sentences and another set of sentences. The display module collectively displays the summary of each of the sets of sentences according to the time-series information.

2012-10-04

20120254739

Phased Importing of Objects - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for importing objects. A computer system processes structured electronic documents that define objects to be imported into a database in multiple phases. In a first phase, the computer system analyzes the structured electronic documents to determine whether the objects to be imported are related to one or more other objects that have yet to be stored in the database. If so, the computer system generates contextual information that defines the relationships between the objects. In a second phase, the computer system establishes relationships in the database between related objects using the contextual information.

2012-10-04

20120254740

Marking one or more items in response to determining device transfer - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining that a computing device that was presenting one or more portions of one or more items and that was in possession of a first user has been transferred from the first user to a second user; and marking, in response to said determining, the one or more portions of the one or more items to facilitate the computing device in returning to the one or more portions upon the computing device being at least transferred back to the first user. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

2012-10-04

20120254741

PROOFREADING APPARATUS, PROOFREADING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An area of interest is designated from a page region having a size in common with at least two pages. An image of interest, which corresponds to the designated area of interest, is extracted from each of the at least two pages. A list image is generated in which extracted images of interest are arrayed along a predetermined direction.

2012-10-04

20120254742

Digital Document Editing Method, Digital Document Editing Program and Digital Document Editing Apparatus - The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.

2012-10-04

20120254743

Method, System and Computer Readable Medium for Addressing Handling from a Computer Program - A computer readable medium stores instructions establishing computer processes including analyzing textual information to identify first information and performing at least one operation using the first information, wherein the at least one operation includes causing a search in an information source to find whether the first information is included in the information source and to find second information therein associated with the first information. A method and a system employ similar processes.

2012-10-04

20120254744

SPELL-CHECK FOR A KEYBOARD SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC CORRECTION - An adaptation of standard edit distance spell-check algorithms leverages probability-based regional auto-correction algorithms and data structures for ambiguous keypads and other predictive text input systems to provide enhanced typing correction and spell-check features. Strategies for optimization and for ordering results of different types are also provided.

2012-10-04

20120254745

Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products Providing an Integrated User Interface for Reading Content - A method performed by a portable, processor-based device with a display screen is disclosed. The method includes rendering a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on the display screen. The GUI includes a first scrollable column with a plurality of graphical elements arranged sequentially within the first column, each graphical element of the plurality of graphical elements associated with at least one article of a plurality of articles. The GUI also includes a second scrollable column with a plurality of independent text portions, each of the text portions corresponding to a respective article. The method further includes coordinating the first and second scrollable columns so that when a first article is selected a first text portion associated with the first article is displayed on the display screen, and a first graphical element associated with the first article is displayed next to the first text portion.

2012-10-04

20120254746

TRANSFERRING DATA BY TOUCH BETWEEN TOUCH-SCREEN DEVICES - A very intuitive and simple set of touch-screen input steps along with the processing of those input steps allows a user to appear to gather shareable files with his fingers on one touch-screen apparatus, lift the files from the touch-screen and drop the shareable files on a touch screen of a second, co-located touch-screen apparatus. The touch-screen apparatus initiating the transfer of files is preset with sharing parameters to manage the transfer of files to a local or remote server. One or more touch-screen apparatus accepting the transfer of files is preset with acceptance parameters to manage the transfer of files from the server to the accepting touch-screen apparatus. Once the files are at the server, multiple touch-screen apparatus may be used to request shareable files from the server.

2012-10-04

20120254747

METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING REGIONS OF INTEREST USING GESTURES VIA A USER INTERFACE - An apparatus is provided for generating a region(s) of interest for a medical image(s). The apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor configured to receive an indication of one or more touches at corresponding locations on a touch enabled display. The respective touches define a touch point at the corresponding location. The processor is further configured to generate one or more regions of interest associated with areas of a medical image(s) responsive to receipt of the indications. A location of respective regions of interest corresponds to locations of touch points. The processor is further configured to define a diameter of regions of interest based on a width/pressure of the touch points and define the regions of interest to include a disc including a contour(s). The regions of interest correspond to an area for annotating the medical image(s). Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided.

2012-10-04

20120254748

HOST DEVICE TO INSTALL DRIVER AND METHOD THEREOF - A host device to install a driver and a driver installing method thereof. The host device includes a user interface to provide a step-by-step setup screen to install a driver of an external device and a setup method screen to inform a setup method of the step-by-step setup screen, and receives a selection signal with respect to the step-by-step setup screen, and a driver installer to install the driver according to the selection signal input through the user interface.

2012-10-04

20120254749

System And Method For Controlling Life Goals - A method and system for assisting a user in achieving a goal are described. Input related to the goal is received from the user. The input includes body sensor data from a body sensor worn by the user, a photograph of the user and/or an avatar configured by the user. Data related to the goal is mined from at least one external source. The user is provided with at least one recommendation for achieving the goal based on the input from the user and the mined data.

2012-10-04

20120254750

APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CHANGING THEMES OF A MEDIA DEVICE - Systems and methods for automatically altering a user interface. An exemplary method receives at a media device a request to display a user interface associated with the received user interface information, receives current date information, accesses display style information based on the current date information and generates the requested user interface based on the accessed display style information. The accessed display style information is retrieved from memory associated with the media device or is received from a source system over a communication network.

2012-10-04

20120254751

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SOUND SOURCE - A sound source is processed in a touch screen electronic device. A representation of the sound source in a touch screen area is displayed. The sound source is reproduced via a first player among a predetermined number of players in the electronic device. A multi-touch operation in the touch screen area is detected, and in response, reproduction of the sound source is repeated via a second, allocated player, while the sound source is still being reproduced via the first player. The repeated reproduction via the second player can result in the generation of a natural, enhanced sound effect.

2012-10-04

20120254752

LOCAL TIMELINE EDITING FOR ONLINE CONTENT EDITING - Local timeline editing for online content editing is disclosed. Various systems and methods described herein provide for online content editing, wherein user-created content is created or modified at an online content editor server in accordance with a timeline (associated with the user-created content) that is modified at a remote content editor client and subsequently received by the online content editor server. In a specific implementation, the creation and modification operations performed on the user-created content are performed at the online content editor server in accordance with the timeline received from the remote content editor client. The timeline can comprise information defining content within the user-created content, and define a temporal property of the content within the user-created content. The remote content editor client can be a thin client instance utilizing limited resources during operation and requiring very limited network bandwidth when transferred to the client.

2012-10-04

20120254753

AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR COMBINING AND PUBLISHING NETWORK-BASED AUDIO PROGRAMMING - An audio combining system including a storage database, one or more audio sources and a computing device coupled together via a network. The computing device comprises a processor and an application executed by the processor configured to import audio data comprising a plurality of audio files and metadata describing the audio files from the one or more audio sources, associate the audio files into a plurality of groups based on one or more characteristics of the audio files, transmit the audio data to a storage database and storing the audio data on the storage database and present the plurality of groups to a user for selection, wherein upon selection the audio files comprising the selected group are played in a set order to the user.

2012-10-04

20120254754

DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA ALBUM - A virtual or digital multimedia album. The digital album may include a collection of related media to provide virtually, what a traditional band album provides, and more. The digital album may include a set of digital audio files that replicate or substantially resemble the set of tracks found on a traditional album. Additional media, such as videos, lyric text, other text, images, and user-imported content may all be included in the digital album. The content initially provided with the digital album may be exclusively oriented to a single artist or music group. In this way, the digital album can create a much greater immersion into the themed music than a mere collection of digital audio files can provide.

2012-10-04

20120254755

Systems and Methods to Select Media Content - Systems and methods to select media content are provided. A particular method includes selecting one of a plurality of media mixes based on a location of a user. The method also includes dynamically selecting a plurality of media content items based on media settings of the selected media mix. The media settings specify proportions of a first set and a second set of media content items. The first set is selected based on a first property including at least one of a tempo, a beat, a rhythm, a type of instrument, a duration, an artist, a title, a genre, an album, a release date, and a type of media. The second set is selected based on a second property including a storage location. The method further includes generating an output including a media content item of the plurality of media content items.

2012-10-04

20120254756

TASKBAR MEDIA PLAYER - A system and method for controlling media through a user interface integrated within a taskbar is described. This system and method enable a user to control media while a user interface of another application remains in perspective. Further, this system includes a taskbar media player, which can play media and enable a user to control the play of that media from within a taskbar.

2012-10-04

20120254757

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus having an input configured to receive a first operation and a second operation input by a user, a playback unit configured to obtain predetermined data and play back the data based on the operation input by the user from the input; and a display control unit configured to control, in correspondence with a virtual hierarchical structure for classifying the predetermined data, a display of a display screen indicating each hierarchy level, and for controlling a display of a predetermined mark in the display screen. The display control unit also controls the display of the predetermined mark corresponding to the predetermined data which is played back by the playback unit in a manner different from other non-selected marks while the predetermined mark is being selected.

2012-10-04

20120254758

Media Asset Pivot Navigation - Media asset pivot navigation is described. In embodiments, collections of media assets can be determined, where each of the collections correspond to a navigation axis that is traversable in a user interface to locate media assets for selection. Visual representations are determined that each represent a collection of media assets, and the visual representations are displayable in the user interface. The visual representations that represent the collections of media assets can be non-textual visual representations that are most likely discernible to a user as representing the collections of the media assets. A navigation input relative to a collection of media assets can be received, and responsive to receiving the navigation input, a visual representation that represents the collection of media assets is changed based on user interactions with the media assets in the collection of media assets.

2012-10-04

20120254759

BROWSER-BASED RECORDING OF CONTENT - This document describes techniques for browser-based recording and streaming of content. In at least some embodiments, a web browser interfaces with recording devices (e.g., a video camera, a microphone, a still-image camera, and so on) of a computing device to stream content data from live events and to record the live events to produce content files. The web browser can also upload the content files to a web-based resource, such as a web server. Further to some embodiments, the techniques can enable multiple recording devices to be used concurrently to record live events. Also in at least some embodiments, the techniques can enable concurrent or semi-concurrent recording and upload of content. For example, a portion of a live event can be recorded and the resulting content data can be uploaded while additional portions of the live event are recorded.

2012-10-04

20120254760

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATING CONTENT GENERATION FOR SELECTED CONTENT - According to embodiments of the invention, a computer system extends an invitation to a plurality of content generators to request authentic content relating to one or more selected topics. The computer system receives content generated in response to the invitation and publishes that content online. The computer system calculates an efficacy of the request by obtaining data regarding to the online content and user interactions with the content. The computer system is configured to obtain data corresponding to user interactions with the content on the website hosting the content as well as user interactions with the content on third party websites such as Facebook® or Twitter®. Using that data, the computer system calculates an efficacy of the request. The computer system may also generate one or more reports to convey the calculated efficacy of the request.

2012-10-04

20120254761

MULTIPURPOSE MEDIA PLAYERS - Disclosed are Multipurpose Media Players that enable users to create transcriptions, closed captions, and/or logs of digitized recordings, that enable the presentation of transcripts, closed captions, logs, and digitized recordings in a correlated manner to users, that enable users to compose one or more scenes of a production, and that enable users to compose storyboards for a production. The multipurpose media players can be embodied within Internet browser environments; thereby providing high availability of the multipurpose players across software platforms, networks, and physical locations.

2012-10-04

20120254762

Virtual mobile management - remote control - Disclosed is a Virtual Mobile Management apparatus and method using a control center system operable to enable remote control of wireless handheld devices based upon the establishment of dedicated communication channels with the wireless device and employing communication protocols to facilitate display capture, key and touch input simulation, and collect device parameters to analyze and compare with pre-defined parameters and generate a standards deviation report viewable by an authorized user. A device client is resident on the mobile device non-volatile memory and is operable by the end user to invoke the application to request remote control feature.

2012-10-04

20120254763

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING AND MANAGING AGGREGATED ELECTRONIC CALENDARS IN A VEHICLE - Various embodiments may include methods and systems for using and managing aggregated electronic calendars and task lists in a vehicle. The method may include receiving information at a vehicle computer identifying at least one vehicle occupant. Further, calendar data may be received at the computer including at least two electronic calendars each associated with the at least one vehicle occupant and at least one contact of the vehicle occupant. The electronic calendar for the identified vehicle occupant and the contact of the vehicle occupant may be displayed in the vehicle.

2012-10-04

20120254764

SYSTEM TO SUGGEST AND AUTOMATICALLY ORGANIZE EVENTS FOR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES - Embodiments are directed towards automatically organizing an event for users to participate in an activity. The system can display suggestions for a plurality of activities to a user. Further, the system may selectively display information about at least one other user with at least one activity of the plurality of activities. The at least one other user may be identified based on the at least one other user having an interest in the at least one activity. Thus, the user may be able to view other users who are interested in an activity and may be nudged to also be interested in the activity. When a minimum number of other users indicate an explicit interest for an activity, the system can automatically organize an event for the users for the activity. The event may be a physical offline gathering of users that are interested in the activity.

2012-10-04

20120254765

Current Updates - This document describes tools capable of differentiating a superset of entities from which a user may receive current updates effective to provide current updates for only some of the entities of the superset. In one embodiment, for example, the tools enable a user of a mobile device to select a set of entities from which the user will automatically receive updates that are current, easily accessible, and visible at-a-glance. The tools may forgo providing current updates for entities that are not selected by the user, though the tools may provide these updates when explicitly requested by the user or at particular times or events.

2012-10-04

20120254766

METHOD TO EMBELLISH AN EXISTING RUI - A method of embellishing a remote user interface includes utilizing metadata to complement the remote user interface. The metadata is able to be used by a device such as an intermediate device to generate additional information related to the remote user interface. The embellished remote user interface is then sent to a rendering device to be displayed and provide a user with an improved viewing experience.

2012-10-04

20120254767

Manipulation of Device Content by a Network-Based Application - A method of modifying, with a network-based application, a content item on a device is provided. The method may include receiving over a network, at a server, information describing the content item from the device. Next, information describing the content item is sent to a client computer and, at the client computer, the content item is presented to a user with the network-based application by displaying a graphical depiction of the device, the graphical depiction showing the content item as it would appear on a display of the device. A request is then received for a modification of the content item from the user using the network-based application. Finally, the request for the modification is sent to the device over the network.

2012-10-04

20120254768

CUSTOMIZING MOBILE APPLICATIONS - In general, this disclosure describes techniques for generating customized versions of mobile applications for computing devices according to user's preferences and/or device information for downloading onto a user's computing device. A web application executing on a first computing device (e.g., back end system or server) associated with the service provider associated with the mobile application may receive user information specifying one or more preferences associated with the mobile application. A compiler of the first computing device may generate a user-specific version of the mobile application based on the received user information. The generated user-specific version of the mobile application may then be communicated to a mobile computing device that is capable of executing the mobile application.

2012-10-04

20120254769

CACHING MULTIPLE VIEWS CORRESPONDING TO MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIOS - The present technology presents targeted content, such as a targeted application, in multiple different configurations to correspond to multiple display orientations. In one example, a primary application having a view reserved to present the targeted application is configured to be presented in either a landscape or a portrait presentation format depending on the orientation of the display. The primary application is further configured to switch from either the landscape or portrait presentation format to the other presentation format when the orientation of the display is changed. Accordingly, the targeted application can be downloaded in multiple configurations so that the configuration that is appropriate for the displayed presentation format of the primary application can be presented with the reserved view.

2012-10-04

20120254770

MESSAGING INTERFACE - A message from a contact is received by a client and displayed in a message window for an amount of time. Additional messages from the same contact received are also displayed in the message window, and the size of the message window is adjusted to display additional messages with previous messages. After the amount of time expires, the message is removed from the message window and the size of the message window is adjusted again. To view the removed message, the user may select the message window, and the previously removed messages are displayed in a full message window.

2012-10-04

20120254771

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION OF EMAIL - The invention relates to the technical field of email sending and receiving and discloses a method and device for displaying the information of an email. The method includes obtaining email display information through an email agent; invoking a text display interface; displaying the obtained display information to a user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email. In the device, email display information is obtained through an email agent; a text display interface is invoked; the obtained display information is displayed to the user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email. As Unicode is an important universal character coding standard for interaction and display, great convenience may be brought to email senders and receivers in different languages, as well as other users.

2012-10-04

20120254772

CONTACT SIDEBAR TILE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking real-time communication data within a single contact tracking application for diverse communication providers and applications. A global data store is synchronized with real-time communication data, such as presence, status, unread messages, and unread notifications, from each application/provider. Real-time communication data for contacts dynamically determined to be recent contacts is retrieved from the data store, based on properties such as a most recent communication time, a communication count, and the like. Real-time communication data corresponding to contacts identified as pinned contacts for which display of real-time communication data is preferred, also may be retrieved. A user interface is generated for displaying the one or more recent and/or pinned contacts, which may vary in size based on the number of contacts identified as pinned contacts, from which a contact may be selected for real-time conversation or e-mail.

2012-10-04

20120254773

TOUCH SCREEN BASED INTERACTIVE MEDIA SHARING - Systems and methods for interactive media sharing are described. In one implementation, a method for interactive media sharing includes facilitating participation in a session where the session is conducted among a plurality of touch screen user devices (TSUDs) connected to each other. The method may further include sending primary media content to one or more of the plurality of the TSUDs in real time. The method may further include receiving edited media content from at least one of the plurality of the TSUDs in real time, wherein the edited media content comprises secondary media content overlaid on the primary media content and where the secondary media content comprises first handwritten content provided through a touch screen and first multimedia data.

2012-10-04

20120254774

METHOD FOR MANAGING A LOCAL MESSAGING PLATFORM - A method for managing a chat room by a computer, including assigning an identifier to a user device in response to receiving a user device location from the user device; associating the identifier with a chat room having a coverage area encompassing the location of the user device; facilitating user interaction with the chat room through the identifier; and terminating the association between the user device and the identifier in response to a change in location of the user device.

2012-10-04

20120254775

Smartly Navigating Hierarchical Structure Strings - A method, device, and computer program product for smartly navigating hierarchical structure strings are provided. The method may include tokenizing a hierarchical structure string by a delimiter, reading a hierarchical path to a string pointed by a pointer device between two adjacent delimiters, and fetching and displaying all available sibling hierarchical paths at the level next to the current level.

2012-10-04

20120254776

BROWSING REAL-TIME SEARCH RESULTS EFFECTIVELY - A method for visiting a results page of a time-varying result set of a search query. The method includes displaying to a user a list of results belonging to the visited page, each result comprising a hyperlink to a document, a result being de-emphasized if the URL used in its hyperlink is present in a set of URLs of results that are deemed to have been seen by the user. When the user clicks or taps a page menu button to navigate to a different page, the method further includes adding to that set the URLs of the results of the visited page. Page menu buttons are highlighted if they pertain to pages containing results deemed to have been seen by the user.

2012-10-04

20120254777

INTERACTION METHOD, APPARATUS AND TERMINAL FOR SYNCRETIC COMMUNICATION - In the field of communications technologies, an interaction method for syncretic communication is provided, which is invented for effectively improving the use experience of a user. The provided interaction method for syncretic communication includes: establish a window gadget Widget unit floatingly displayed on a main display interface, in which the Widget unit is associated with at least one virtual user in a syncretic communication unit; the Widget unit receives communication information of the virtual user associated with the Widget unit, in which the communication information is sent to the Widget unit through the syncretic communication unit; the Widget unit sends a prompt signal according to an information type of the communication information; and the Widget unit receives a response instruction of a user that is sent in response to the prompt signal, and triggers a response policy according to the response instruction.

2012-10-04

20120254778

MULTI-SOURCE JOURNAL CONTENT INTEGRATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The paper discloses a system including a multi-source content acquisition engine configured to provide an instruction to launch an editor window to display a set of selectable content from user-generated content generated by a plurality of remote sources and stored in a content datastore. The system includes a multi-source content selection configured to identify a set of selected content from the set of selectable content. The system includes an integrated content arrangement engine configured to arrange the set of selected content into a multi-sourced journal content sequence. The system includes a layer integration engine configured to apply a layer from the layer datastore to a portion of the multi-sourced journal content sequence. The system includes a multi-source content launch engine configured to provide an instruction to display an integrated multi-sourced journal content sequence including the multi-sourced journal content sequence and the layer in the editor window.

2012-10-04

20120254779

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING OBJECTS IN A USER INTERFACE BASED ON A VISUAL ACUITY OF A VIEWER - A system, a computer readable storage medium including programs, and a computer-implemented method for displaying objects in a graphical user interface of a device are described. A vision test is presented in the graphical user interface of the device, the vision test including vision test objects used to test a visual acuity level of a user of the device. Input is received from the user identifying the user's ability to see at least one vision test object in the vision test. Display settings corresponding to the input received from the user are identified. Objects in the graphical user interface are displayed based on the display settings.

2012-10-04

20120254780

PREDICTIVE TILING - This document describes techniques and apparatuses for predictive tiling. These techniques predict tiles of content to pre-render so that an application will be ready to render content quickly in response to a user manipulation. By so doing, these techniques enable fast manipulation of content without unduly impacting drawing resources.

2012-10-04

20120254781

IMMERSIVE INTERACTION MODEL INTERPRETATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure include one or more of a method, computing device, computer-readable medium, and system for providing an immersive GUI. According to an embodiment, this may include providing a view of G&G data within at least a substantial portion of the GUI, a first GUI element, wherein transparency of the first GUI element varies depending on a location of an input device with respect to the first GUI element, and a second GUI element, wherein the second GUI element is customized based on a context.

2012-10-04

20120254782

METHOD FOR MANIPULATING A GRAPHICAL OBJECT AND AN INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME - A method comprises receiving an input event generated when at least one contact is made on an interactive surface at a location corresponding to a graphical object; determining the number of contacts associated with the input event; tracking movement of the at least one contact on the interactive surface; identifying a graphical object manipulation based on the number of contacts, the movement of the at least one contact, and the graphical object type; and performing the graphical object manipulation.

2012-10-04

20120254783

MODIFYING NUMERIC DATA PRESENTATION ON A DISPLAY - Various systems, processes, and products may be used to modify numeric data presented on a display. In particular implementations, a system, a process, and a product for modifying numeric data presented on a display may include the ability to generate a user interface including a section that has numeric data in a report format and to determine when input via one or more user digits contacting a display presenting the user interface has been received. The system, the process, and the product may also include the ability to determine whether the digit input is a command regarding the numeric data and to generate, based on the command determination, a user interface that modifies the presentation of the numeric data and represents at least the majority of the numeric data.

2012-10-04

20120254784

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IRRIGATION SYSTEM DESIGN REGISTRATION AND ON-SITE SPRINKLER PACKAGE CONFIGURATION VERIFICATION - Internet-accessible system and method for customized design and on-site verification of agriculture irrigation systems includes one or more of: 1) sprinkler package configuration software operable on a user's PC or accessible via an Internet website, 2) Internet-accessible proprietary irrigation system registry database and user interface, 3) computer-controlled automated component selection and labeling system for placing barcode or RFID information on components, and 4) portable wireless location-aware communication device operable at or near an irrigation site for accessing the registry database and obtaining sprinkler package configuration information specific to a particular irrigation system based on location and/or a particular irrigation system component detected in proximity to the portable communication device.

2012-10-04

20120254785

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An event setting section sets calendars or accounts based on operation contents from an operation input receiving unit, and stores a list of the set calendars or accounts in a schedule database. In addition, the event setting section sets events in a calendar based on operation contents from the operation input receiving unit, and stores a list of the set events in the schedule database. An image correlation section stores image data supplied from an image input unit in an image database, and correlates (shares) the image data with the event list stored in the schedule database based on photographing information (photographing time, camera ID, and the like) accompanied by the image data.

2012-10-04

20120254786

CHARACTER ENTRY APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform the following: detect, from a key user interface of an electronic device, key input of a particular key character from a first set of key characters; detect, from a user-scribe delineation user interface of the electronic device, user-scribed delineation input of a particular delineation character from a second set of delineation characters; wherein the first set of characters comprise grapheme characters and the second set of characters comprises embellishment marks, and wherein the apparatus is configured to associate together the particular key character and the particular delineation character for display.

2012-10-04

20120254787

Method and system for accessing data - A user interface tool for use on a user display comprising a central display box for displaying information relating to some or all of a data set based on the user's selections, a plurality of tabs corresponding to portions of the data set positioned adjacent to the central display box, whereby information relating to the portion of the data set corresponding to that tab is displayed in the central display box when one of the tabs is selected by the user; and whereby the user can transfer the portion of the data set corresponding to the selected tab to a target graphic on the user display.

2012-10-04

20120254788

Dynamic Distribution of Client Windows on Multiple Monitors - A multi-user computer system may distribute user windows across multiple monitors, some of the user windows may span two or more monitors, and some user windows may share a monitor. Each user window may be associated with a set of user input devices for each user. The user window configuration may be changed on the fly by an administrative user, who may reposition, rotate, scale, or perform other changes to the windows. Some embodiments may include a rule stack that may apply different levels of rules in succession to allocate user windows.

2012-10-04

20120254789

METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION - A method for providing improved clinical documentation may include providing for display of an electronic medical chart having at least a notes entry section and a plurality of other chart sections associated with respective different healthcare related topics associated with a patient, displaying, in response to a user entry initiating a mode shift, a set of available data entry templates including a plurality of selectable data entry templates where each selectable data entry template includes a plurality of fields for entry of data corresponding to a topic associated with a corresponding one of the other chart sections, and utilizing data entered into at least one of the plurality of fields to provide a notes entry to the notes entry section and to fill chart data associated with at least one of the plurality of other chart sections in response to closing a selected one of the selectable data entry templates after entry of data into one or more fields of the selected one of the selectable data entry templates. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also provided.

2012-10-04

20120254790

DIRECT, FEATURE-BASED AND MULTI-TOUCH DYNAMIC SEARCH AND MANIPULATION OF IMAGE SETS - A system and method for manipulating graphic objects on a tactile user interface are provided. The graphic objects can be photographic images which are retrieved in response to a query and are clustered, based on values of first and second user-selected features assigned to the graphic objects. A navigation map is displayed on the user interface. The navigation map represents the clusters of graphic objects in first and second dimensions, corresponding to the first and second features. A user can manipulate a target window displayed on the navigation map using the tactile user interface. The target window encompasses a subset of the clustered graphic objects. A synchronized display of graphic objects in the subset of graphic objects on the user interface corresponds to the subset of clustered graphic objects within the displayed target window.

2012-10-04

20120254791

INTERACTIVE MENU ELEMENTS IN A VIRTUAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE - The present technology includes a digital content authoring tool for authoring digital content without the need to understand or access computer code. The present technology further includes creating digital content that is compatible with a diverse population of end user devices without the need for separate versions of the completed content. Instead, the digital authoring tool can manage versions of assets, which individually, can be compatible with different device criteria. Additionally, the present technology contemplates methods of delivering packages of the digital content that are configured to be compatible with the hardware configuration of each requesting device, despite the diverse capabilities of end user devices. Accordingly, the technology described herein provides a simple method for creating and delivering digital content that is configured for presentation on a user's specific device.

2012-10-04

20120254792

Method And System For Providing An HMI In A Process Control System For Monitoring And Control Of A Process - A method for navigating in a process control system. The process control system includes a graphical user interface with a plurality of graphic objects each associated with a process control object wherein a graphic object has an active link for monitoring or controlling at least one physical control object. The graphical user interface is arranged with navigation means so that a user can indicate or select one point in a process section on the graphical user interface as a first user input and increase, in a continuous animated movement, the scale at which the point and its immediate surroundings in the process section are displayed. Further, the zooming-in or zooming out continues displaying a view of the indicated or otherwise selected point on the graphical user interface and scaling it up continuously until a predetermined scale is reached or, until a second user input is received.

2012-10-04

20120254793

ENHANCED USER INTERFACE TO TRANSFER MEDIA CONTENT - A method and apparatus are provided for sharing a media content displayed in a window of the touch input interface of a first electronic device with at least one second electronic device. The first electronic device includes a processor controlling the touch input interface. The method is carried out by the processor and includes the acts of enabling displacement of the window in response to capturing a first touch input indicative of an initiation of a transfer, capturing a continuous touch input across the interface from an initial position in the window, displacing the window with each additional touch input of the continuous touch input, sending an activation message that the media content is to be played on the second device when determining that the window is within a given distance of a virtual representation of the second electronic device on the interface.

2012-10-04

20120254794

APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS FOR ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF A HIGHER-PRIORITY MULTIMEDIA OBJECT - An apparatus is provided that includes a processor and a memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to direct presentation of a user interface having a list that presents information regarding elements of a plurality of patient exams. The apparatus is also caused to receive an indication of acknowledgment of receipt of a higher-priority one of the exams or information regarding the respective exam. This includes the apparatus being caused to receive an indication of long selection of first information indicating the respective exam's designation as being higher priority, direct presentation of a dialog that includes a user interface element for the acknowledgment, receive an indication of selection of the user interface element, and receive an indication of selection of the first information, without first receiving an indication of user interaction with any other area of the user interface.

2012-10-04

20120254795

Methods and Graphical User Interfaces for Editing on a Portable Multifunction Device - Methods and graphical user interfaces for editing on a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display are disclosed. While displaying an application interface of an application, the device detects a multitouch edit initiation gesture on the touch screen display. In response to detection of the multitouch edit initiation gesture, the device displays a plurality of user-selectable edit option icons in an area of the touch screen display that is independent of a location of the multitouch edit initiation gesture. The device also displays a start point object and an end point object to select content displayed by the application in the application interface.

2012-10-04

20120254796

METHOD OF CONVERTING DIGITAL DATA - A method is disclosed to convert digital data using a memory card operatively engaged with an apparatus such as a digital camera having control buttons but that does not have a keyboard or keypad. The memory card comprises a central processor, a conversion module and a storage module. The method includes placing the apparatus in a predetermined mode; activating the conversion module in the memory card; selecting at least one file stored in the memory card; and converting the selected at least one file.

2012-10-04

20120254797

INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an information processor includes a text selection module, a text analysis module, a keyword display module, and an action selection module. The text selection module receives an input of a portion selected from text being displayed. The text analysis module analyzes text information in the portion to extract a word or a word group as a keyword contained in the text information. The keyword display module displays a list of keywords extracted by the text analysis module and, if a specific keyword is selected, displays a list of actions corresponding to the specific keyword. The action selection module performs, if a specific action is selected from the list of actions, processing related to the specific action.

2012-10-04

20120254798

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCOVERING SIMILAR CONTENT OR SEARCH RESULTS - An approach is provided for discovering similar content or search results. The discovery platform causes, at least in part, presentation of one or more results. Next, the discovery platform receives an input for selecting at least one of the one or more results. Then, the discovery platform process and/or facilitate a processing of the input to determine one or more criteria associated with the at least one of the one or more results. Additionally, the discovery platform causes, at least in part, presentation of one or more other results based, at least in part, on the one or more criteria.

2012-10-04

20120254799

VISUAL WIDGET SEARCH - A technique for a visual search sets a transient mode on, gathers objects to form a pile of objects, wherein each object has a predefined portion visible, and determines whether a selector is over the predefined portion of an object in the pile of objects. Responsive to a determination that the selector is detected over the predefined portion of the object in the pile of objects, the object is presented in a foreground. It is determined whether the object in the foreground is selected to form a selected object. Responsive to a determination that the object in the foreground is selected to form a selected object, the pile of objects is restored to an original state with the selected object scrolled into view within the predefined display area.